App description on fleek:
"real talk — you’re chilling with friends and they’re talking about that posterizing dunk by [insert favorite player here]. Your homie says “Ü SEE DAT PLAY DOE”. You didn’t see it. You smile and nod but you have no idea what is going on and think to yourself…”what am I doing with my life??"
Here comes Play-Doe…a brand new sports app that sends the TOP 10 plays to your phone, every day. Rated #1 app in the world by us because it’s dope and we like dope things. Much love. Ball is life."
Love this idea. I always wish someone made this as a quick summary of the day for sports. My only "yeah but..." thought was licensing. How do you square with the networks if you're showing and monetizing their videos? That's why it's so hard to find new highlights on YouTube. Regardless, looks cool.
Thanks @evankimbrell! Appreciate the kind words.
We actually got contacted by a network. They liked that Play-Doe is distributing their content to new audience on mobile. I don't think that will always be the case but for now, no complaints.
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Porzingod has his own app?! A few thoughts...
1. I'm really happy to see another example of an athlete acting as a media company.
2. There's a little stir about a conflict of interest here. If Kristaps ends up with a highlight in this app, is that because it was a 10 ten or because it's his company? Not sure it matters... maybe his fans are the ones downloading this so that's exactly what they're here for. But in order for this app to reach the big time, I'd assume Kristaps should not weigh the results in his favor.
Anyways, this concept is a very nice complement to the amaz'n Twenty Four basketball app @libovness
@gladrobot Unfortunately, Sir Kristaps Porzingod in not yet a member of the team but he is an inspiration to us all. If he wanted to join the team, we'd have him in a heartbeat.
Big fan of @libovness's Twenty Four app. @215gabe (co-creator of 24) was a big help in launching Play-Doe. I think the two apps compliment each other nicely. As an avid 🏀 fan, top plays and stats are things I want to check everyday. Maybe we'll collab one day!
Hey! We're actually in the middle of rebuilding our app and will be back soon for the start of the new NBA season. Watch out for a greatly improved highlights experience soon!
@harrisonhuntr Hey, Congrats on getting featured on Product Hunt! I am the founder of Pioneer Mobile Applications, a mobile dev firm in NY. Every week we feature new and awesome apps on our blog. With this being said, I would love to chat with you to learn more about you, the app, and the team behind it! After chatting and learning more about you, I would love to write an article and send it out to the masses who love the type of things you all do! Let me know if you're interested.
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Thanks for sharing @besvinick! You da best. 🙌
backstory....@harrisonhuntr and I are roommates and giant sports fans. Boston & NC, respectively. We were constantly sending gifs and videos from our favorite players & teams across various channels (twitter, youtube, reddit, etc.) back and forth and realized there was no good way to watch and share top plays.
So, we threw a hackathon one night at our place and came up with the idea for Play-Doe, the easiest way to watch & share the best plays of the day.
Once we're out of this sports doldrums we're in at the moment (sorry baseball fans) we're launching a brand new app with some features we're pretty excited about.
s/o @peazydoesit@__michellej@apompliano@perlerar & Sir Kristaps for the help & inspiration.
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